Gadgets were put out of their paces with calculating the Fibonacci sequence (Picture: Geoff Robinson Photography)The iPhone is generally considered to be a marvel of modern engineering – and comes with a value tag to match. So you probably surprised to hear that an Apple phone was beaten in a 'race' among 8 computers from the final 75 years to see that was the fastest. The £12.99 BBC Micro:Bit from 2015 came out highest scoring an incredible 8843, the computer with Windows 98 came following with 1477, a BBC Micro from 1981 came 3rd with 70. The race honoured Fibonacci, the twelfth-century Italian mathematician regarded as the generality talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages, with generating numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. Kevin Murrell, trustee of The National Museum of Computing and the Grand Digital race starter, said: 'This is the premier time that machines from extremely many decades of computing have raced together.
iPhone beaten in performance race with 1970's Apple II and other even older computers (and a mechanical calculator)
The iPhone 6, launched in 2014, is 32,600 times quicker than the speediest Apollo-era computers and enable to of performing instructions a whopping 120,000,000 times faster. In 4th place was the Apple II with 35, and a PDP-8 from 1965 came 5th with 16. A Facit Calculator managed 6th place with 7, just ahead of the iPhone six that product just 4. The way the numbers were generated had to be tailored to each device's style of computing -- voice input in the status of the iPhone, and read off paper tape in some older computers. On the older machines the programs are on punched paper tape, and maybe the product is coming out on the teleprinter.
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